Which of the following statements from the background information best illustrates the purpose for the publishing of the Federalist Papers?”
A.)“Fearful that the cause for the Constitution might be lost in his home state, Alexander Hamilton devised a plan to write a series of letters or essays rebutting the critics.”
B.)“After the Revolutionary War, many Americans realized that the government established by the Articles of Confederation was not working.”
C.)“The demand for reprints was so great that one New York newspaper publisher printed the essays together in two volumes entitled The Federalist, A Collection of Essays, written in favor of the New Constitution, By a Citizen of New York.”
D.)“The other New York delegates had angrily left the Convention convinced that the rights of the people were being abandoned.”
